Palmyra is one of the most famous sites in Syria for its extraordinary heritage and archaeological remains. Inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1980, the city saw much of its heritage destroyed ...

Crops don't generally thrive in desert-like ground, but 1000 years ago farmers in Israel utilised refuse such as ash and ...

Before Christmas Eve, attackers burned a Christmas tree near the Syrian city of Hama. Additionally, some groups moved around ...

On a late-summer day in 1856, a letter carrier stepped from a mail coach in front of a three-story townhouse in Mayfair, in ...

Though Tehran scrambled to help the Assads face off the rebel assault, soldiers were turning on their own commanders ...

The accusations are around the land holdings of Buddhist monks in eastern P.E.I. For months now, comments that originated on social media have been spilling into council chambers, brought forward ...

The accusations are around the land holdings of Buddhist monks in eastern P.E.I. For months now, comments that originated on social media have been spilling into council chambers, brought forward to ...

He recruited the help of thousands of schoolchildren and their teachers, who embarked on a trip right around Britain to map mountains, rivers, fields, back gardens, forests, covering every piece of ...

The scars that disfigure Syria after 14 years of civil war are wider than its minefields. Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of towns and villages across the country have been destroyed or abandoned in one ...

Ancient Greece produced the earliest records ... oldest known evidence of lead pollution in the environment dating to around 5,200 years ago. That's 1,200 years older than the previous earliest ...

These habitats contain numerous endangered species, ancient burial ... s medicine found near the ocean and the beaches, and they [the military] take up a lot of that land. And unfortunately ...